Contemporary Case Studies in your Essays

Chelseaaaakane

Business studies people, do you guys use contemporary case studies in your essays or hypothetical made up ones???

If we use contemporary, there’s so many dot points to memorise stats and cases for lol , is that even possible, seeing as the essay questions for bus are becoming really specific 👀👀

Cuneyd

Chelseaaaakane you could always make up case studies but you're better off with memorizing case studies.

Sallymelek

Qantas is the perfect one I reckon... works well to use for a range of examples

bobmattew100

Apparently you're allowed to make up hypothetical as long as it makes sense. Trust me use Apple, you can bs the examples

Alex-Watson

Don't use a hypothetical, but rather fake the stats/actions with real businesses. It's not that difficult considering we're already surrounded by corporate giants, just choose one giant and bs it (but make it sound real lol).

LouisGilbert

you can use both just dont say ‘in this hypothetical business...’ Theres heaps of sample answers from past papers that use hypothetical businesses and even this one person said Zara operates in 200+ countries, last time i checked there were only 195 countries lmao anyways this person got a band 6 even though they used false information so it doesn’t matter if you bullshit it

Florencec

Use contemporary ones and just make up the info so it looks like you know what you’re doing lol

Yonora

Not memorising contemporary case studies can pose an obvious deficit in nuance. I would definitely recommend to know the ins and outs of real contemporary case studies.

As for your comment on memorising, I get it! Very few of us are blessed with a good memory haha. But if you stick with one company, it becomes much easier to memorise, especially if you're recalling them weekly/fortnightly.
And sticking with 1/2 companies is completely fine! You have to remember, HSC markers go question by question so they're not going to know you've stuck with one company.